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9.
IMTC 20th Anniversary Forum – Porto, Portugal
Why WebRTC is so important for the Web
● A key piece of the puzzle missing from the
drive by web
● Without WebRTC a big gap between native
and Web apps
● RTC should be easy to add to any web page
or app
● The demand is clear

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IMTC 20th Anniversary Forum – Porto, Portugal
Why WebRTC is so important for the Web
● WebRTC is not just about replacing native
apps
● WebRTC is so much more
○ Easy to use
○ Fast
○ Secure
○ Freely available
● Easy integration with other HTML5
○ MediaStream => <video> - done!

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IMTC 20th Anniversary Forum – Porto, Portugal
Why VPx Codecs?
● High quality, free and open alternative for
web video
● The web is built on free standards
○ We all benefit from an expanding web
■ Video is key to that expansion
○ We need technologies that evolve at the
speed of the web

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IMTC 20th Anniversary Forum – Porto, Portugal
VP9 development
● VP9 is the latest open video codec released
as part of the WebM project
● Development process:
○ An experimental branch at WebM project launch
○ VP9 development started in earnest late in 2011
○ Started with re-use of basic building blocks of VP8,
but everything was up for change
○ All development was in the open public experimental
branch since middle of 2012
● Released in June 2013
○ [subject to bug-fixes]

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IMTC 20th Anniversary Forum – Porto, Portugal
Conclusions
● WebRTC is revolutionizing RTC
● VP8 is ready for WebRTC and already in
heavy use
● VP9 is released and used by YouTube
● VP9 offer great performance advantages
○ Not yet ready for WebRTC
● Experimental work on next generation
already started